Talk:States of Alderney

2009 comments

I keep wondering whether 'Politics and Government of Alderney' should be a seperate article to 'Politics and Government of Guernsey'. If it should be, then we need to include it as part of the series box on the Guernsey politics page. If not, then we need to look into creating a series box of its own. Does anyone have any thoughts? Westpole (talk) 19:58, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

I agree, but it has to be admitted it will be a short article! -MacRusgail (talk) 20:18, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I've created the template for the series box. Its called 'Politics of Alderney', and can be added using 'Politics of Alderney' in '{' brackets at the top of an article. You're right though, it will probably be the shortest article on 'national' politics on the whole of wikipedia. I suspect somewhere out there there are probably parliaments with more people than the whole population of Aldernery! Westpole (talk) 16:59, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Norman Browse should probably have his own article, but not sure about some of the rest. After all, not every UK councillor has an article... --MacRusgail (talk) 17:13, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Definitely, most of them don't seem to do much! I started a stub on Peter Allen because he got by far the most votes, and John Beaman because he's been in the news more than most (including BBC online) and a bit more controversial. I'm not planning on making any more. Do you have any sources on Sir Norman? I had trouble getting hold of anything on him. I checked the wiki notability rules, and all three of them meet the notability rules, because of course Alderney has much more sovereignty than any UK Council. But Sir Norman would probably have an article even if he wasn't president, so I should have a go at expanding that one if there's any more material Westpole (talk) 21:33, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Legal status

The section has this:
"According to custom, the British Crown does not involve itself in Alderney politics, although theoretically it has the ability to."
Does "Crown" here actually mean the Queen, or does it refer to the UK government, which is what people usually assume that means? If it's the former, is that only the same relationship the Queen theoretically has with the UK govt? And if so is it worth clarifying it, say by adding "...politics, as with the UK Government, although...". If its the latter, can we clarify that, too? Moonraker12 (talk) 18:41, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

It means whichever is convenient to one side or the other, basically! It means that the British Government defends the place, but turns a blind eye to tax evasion and slightly questionable financial activity... It's typical English political obfuscation, which pretends that the unelected Head of State runs everything, whereas in reality it's a combination of MPs and business interests. The situation here is bizarre, technically Alderney is neither part of England nor the UK, and is not controlled by Westminster, but in actual fact, it's basically a get out clause for certain business purposes.--MacRusgail (talk) 16:04, 29 August 2009 (UTC)